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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,695, dated September 28, 1880. Application filed March 5, 1878,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ACOB J DETWILLER, of Greenville, Hudson county, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Process for Disabling or Driving Away Mosquitoes, Flies, and other Insects, of which the followin g is a complete specification.

I take twenty-four parts, by weight, of the blossoms of Pg rethrum ccwnezmz, and Cinemm'afolium in their natural or powdered state, and mix them with four parts carbon,one part nitrate of potash, half-part gum-benzoin, and one-sixteenth part of gum-tragacanth. The ingre-dients are then moistened slightly with water and formed by pressure into cylindrical or any other convenient form of pastilles. When JACOB J. DETWILLER.

Witnesses:

JACOB WEART, GEo. WHITEFORD. 

